American - Musician | September 17, 1923 - January 1, 1953
There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.
Hank Williams
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You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.
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There ain't nobody I'd rather have alongside me in a fight than my mama with a broken bottle in her hand.
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I'm nothing but a drunkard. Why do people expect me to be anything else?
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Somebody got the idea nobody didn't listen to my kind 'a music. I told everybody on the radio that this was my last program. 'If anybody's enjoyed it,' I said, 'I'd like to hear from 'em.' I got 400 cards and letters that afternoon and the next mornin'... They decided they wanted to keep my kind of music.
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Personally, I cain't stand classical stuff, but I don't tell the world about it. I just turn the radio off. Now, why cain't these folks who don't like my kind of music do the same?
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If you're gonna sing, sing 'em something they can understand.
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To sing like a hillbilly, you had to have lived like a hillbilly. You had to have smelt a lot of mule manure.
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You booked him, and you didn't worry about crowds. For drawing power in the South, it was Roy Acuff, then God.
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I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.
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It makes me mad to hear these popular orchestras make a jammed-up comedy of a song like 'Wreck on the Highway.' It ain't a funny song.
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Folk songs express the dreams and prayers and hopes of the working people.
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